Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is an Anglican church built in 1843, designed by architect John Harper of York, with minor alterations made in the 20th century. It features regularly-coursed, squared sandstone blocks with ashlar dressings and roofs covered in Welsh slate. The church has a transeptal plan in the Romanesque style, with an east tower above the nave, a choir vestry, an organ chamber, north and south transepts, a broad nave, and a porch at the west end.

The tower is three stages high, with shallow clasping buttresses on the first stage and a tall semi-circular headed two-light window on the west face serving the chancel. The third stage has tall triple arched belfry openings beneath a cornice and a shallow ashlar parapet. To the north, there is a single-storey choir vestry, followed by a tall gabled organ chamber featuring a multi-foil window at the gable apex above a pair of tall lancet windows. The north transept has a gable with a deeply recessed blind semi-circular arched opening flanked by blind five-bay arcades. Above this, there is a tall three-light window with deeply-chamfered reveals set on a moulded string course.

The nave consists of three and a half bays, marked by shallow buttresses, and has a stylised corbel table beneath the eaves. The broad west gable features a central gabled porch with a semi-circular arched double doorway. The south transept mirrors the details of the north transept. Further east, there is a flat-roofed clergy vestry with a semi-circular headed doorway to the east.

Inside, few original furnishings remain, but the west gallery retains enclosed pews behind an arcaded front panel, with staircases leading to the gallery featuring simple turned balusters. The shafts at the crossing have simple cushion capitals. There is a 20th-century screen in the north transept and 20th-century panelling in the chancel. Memorial windows dedicated to John Henry Thompson, who died in 1941, depict St Martin and St George on the north wall of the nave. The church exemplifies the Italian Romanesque style that was popular in the 1840s.